The things I do for my kids….

by | Apr 11, 2010 | Blog | 3 comments

I’m writing this on the upper deck seating area of an enormous hotel waterpark…a generous gift from my sister and her husband. The kids are having a ball. And not just my kids; there are probably 500 offspring running and yelling around this place. Oh,... Read more...'

What’s for lunch?

by | Apr 5, 2010 | Blog | 1 comment

I’m fighting a dangerous mental habit. With five kids and a small business I am constantly beset with errands that I urgently need to do RIGHT NOW and find myself desperately wishing huge chunks of my life away. “If I can just make it through this... Read more...'

Pretty! Shiny!

by | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog | 0 comments

Somehow I have become enamored of diamonds. Big, shiny, show-stopping pieces. Something Elizabeth Taylor or Zsa Zsa Gabor would have worn back in the day. Yes! The Hope diamond; cursed or not, I’d like to own it, just for a little while.   I know, it’s... Read more...'

Don’t ask me, I just live here.

by | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog | 0 comments

I think that my inattentive parenting is finally starting to pay off. A few days without clean school uniforms and my daughter has decided that I can’t be trusted and has begun to do her own laundry. Today my son got sick of waiting for me and pulled out the... Read more...'

Trial by Fire.

by | Mar 15, 2010 | Blog | 1 comment

Today was my first outside run of the year. Absolutely gorgeous; forty degrees, the ice finally off the sidewalks, big, fat orange sun coming up ahead of me…. Beautiful. Of course, I lost my mind a little bit. The problem is, I have no ability to regulate my... Read more...'

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